And Now for Something Completely Different...
(Published on 14. March 2023, 12:34 by Abdul the Killer)
SHADING: Shade some cells so that in the finished puzzle cells containing values exactly one greater than an immediate neighbour (diagonally or orthogonally) within their box are shaded (and otherwise unshaded).
The shading pattern must have a left-right symmetry in the grid.
ANTI-KNIGHT: Cells a knight's move apart cannot contain the same digit.
Otherwise standard Sudoku rules apply.
Solution code: row 4 col 5
Comments
on 25. May 2024, 03:59 by Shuhua Milk
Nice!
on 21. August 2023, 10:38 by Tamuha
Take out the Holy Pin, then shall thou count to three, no more no less
Three shall be the number thou shall count
And the number of the counting shall be three...
Thanks for the nice puzzle. I enjoyed it very much.
---Thanks, as always, for the solve.
I watched The Holy Grail again last year, expecting to find it very dated. It wasn't.
---ATK
on 17. March 2023, 00:26 by Jreg
I agree with josh_johnson, you CAN'T read the rules carelessly. The puzzle is pretty easy but it took me several attempts and a combined time of 90 minutes to crack simply because it took a couple of reads to really understand the implifications of the rule set.
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That's interesting -- I have wondered if the way I give rules is a bit wonky and I am very open to suggestions to how they might be improved (here or for any other puzzle).
Anyway thanks for the solve and I hope you enjoyed it despite my wonky instructions.
---ATK
on 16. March 2023, 01:17 by josh_johnson
Lovely puzzle with a smooth solve path. Good difficulty to solve with my 7 year old daughter and introduce her to the anti-knight constraint.
My only advice to solvers is to read the rules and don't just skim them. We broke it the first couple of times before I realized that we overlooked a couple key words.
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Glad you and your daughter enjoyed the puzzle, thanks for the solve.
---ATK
on 15. March 2023, 10:25 by qwert2812
Very smooth
on 14. March 2023, 22:45 by sacklunch
That was a fun spin on the shading constraint! I actually found that easier than some of the other ATK shaders. Thanks for setting!
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Thanks for the kind comment. Don't tell anyone but I invented this puzzle by accident.
---ATK
on 14. March 2023, 20:34 by ozgaz
very nice puzzle - enjoyed the twist on having to think in reverse for the rule set. thanks
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Thanks for the kind comment.
---ATK
on 14. March 2023, 15:57 by jhow25
What's meant by left-right symmetry? Cells left and right of the 5th column must have the same shading?
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Exactly that. Good luck.
---ATK
on 14. March 2023, 14:14 by the_fow_fow
Very nice puzzle. I really enjoyed the logic. I agree that it was a 2-star puzzle. Thank you for setting!
on 13. March 2023, 15:44 by Abdul the Killer
I figure this is a 2-star puzzle, but it's so easy to go wrong that I've left it at the "default" 3-star. Good luck!
